Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire James Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time.... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.